The current grub2 fails on loading large initrd file (> 500M) since the initrd size is added to the addr_min and causes the failure. Fix it by picking a patch from grub2 upstream.
Signed-off-by: Shan Hai <shan....@windriver.com> --- .../grub/files/grub2-fix-initrd-size-bug.patch | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++ meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub2.inc | 1 + 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+) create mode 100644 meta/recipes-bsp/grub/files/grub2-fix-initrd-size-bug.patch diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/grub/files/grub2-fix-initrd-size-bug.patch b/meta/recipes-bsp/grub/files/grub2-fix-initrd-size-bug.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d114f48 --- /dev/null +++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/grub/files/grub2-fix-initrd-size-bug.patch @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +From 8fbb150a56966edde4dc07b8d01be5eb149b65ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> +Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:03:35 +0000 +Subject: [PATCH 1/1] * grub-core/loader/i386/linux.c (grub_cmd_initrd): Don't + add the initrd size to addr_min, since the initrd will be allocated after + this address. + +commit 6a0debbd9167e8f79cdef5497a73d23e580c0cd4 upstream + +Upstream-Status: Backport + +Signed-off-by: Shan Hai <shan....@windriver.com> +--- + ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ + grub-core/loader/i386/linux.c | 3 +-- + 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) + +diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog +index c2f42d5..40cb508 100644 +--- a/ChangeLog ++++ b/ChangeLog +@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ ++2013-01-20 Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> ++ ++ * grub-core/loader/i386/linux.c (grub_cmd_initrd): Don't add the ++ initrd size to addr_min, since the initrd will be allocated after ++ this address. ++ + 2012-07-02 Vladimir Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com> + + * grub-core/net/tftp.c (ack): Fix endianness problem. +diff --git a/grub-core/loader/i386/linux.c b/grub-core/loader/i386/linux.c +index 62087cf..e2425c8 100644 +--- a/grub-core/loader/i386/linux.c ++++ b/grub-core/loader/i386/linux.c +@@ -1098,8 +1098,7 @@ grub_cmd_initrd (grub_command_t cmd __attribute__ ((unused)), + worse than that of Linux 2.3.xx, so avoid the last 64kb. */ + addr_max -= 0x10000; + +- addr_min = (grub_addr_t) prot_mode_target + prot_init_space +- + page_align (size); ++ addr_min = (grub_addr_t) prot_mode_target + prot_init_space; + + /* Put the initrd as high as possible, 4KiB aligned. */ + addr = (addr_max - size) & ~0xFFF; +-- +1.8.5.2.233.g932f7e4 + diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub2.inc b/meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub2.inc index add4586..312771b 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub2.inc +++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub2.inc @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ SRC_URI = "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-${PV}.tar.gz \ file://grub-efi-fix-with-glibc-2.20.patch \ file://0001-Unset-need_charset_alias-when-building-for-musl.patch \ file://0001-parse_dhcp_vendor-Add-missing-const-qualifiers.patch \ + file://grub2-fix-initrd-size-bug.patch \ " DEPENDS = "flex-native bison-native xz" -- 1.8.5.2.233.g932f7e4 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
